Washington Huskies

USC has been picked to win the Pac-12 Conference football championship and appears ready to make a post-sanctions national title run. The Trojans return quarterback Cody Kessler, who threw for 39 touchdowns last season, and 17 other starters. They are solid as cement at center, have a juke-moves receiver in JuJu Smith, a two-way star in Adoree' Jackson and a cruise-missile linebacker in Su'a Cravens. The only position at which USC is scary thin, some say, is head coach. Steve Sarkisian won nine games his first season but fell the Cumberland Gap short of winning everyone over. "At the end of every season you self-scout your program," Sarkisian said Friday at Pac-12...

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